[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

[jan-python at maka.demon.nl]

So.. are we only thinking about implementing this outer scope 
assignment because
there's lots of talk about it on the list, or are there actually use 
cases that
would become clearer if assigning to an outer scope variable was allowed? I
tend to think that almost _any_ piece of code that could be written 
using outer
scope assignment would become less clear by doing so as opposed to some other
way.

So, I'm not keen on the whole idea.
If we must, however, I think a declaration like 'nonlocal' would be 
best (well,
least-bad, that is).